As we are fed more content, we are pushed deeper into algorithmic niches. In return, we are encouraged to engage with more extreme and polarizing identifiers because it is more labelable, more indexable by the machine — the creation of the “Island". On this island, the slang, in-jokes, and archetypes which emerge as a community develops in... See more

A common pattern in Muslim states worldwide: strict suppression of all political speech turned Mosques into a refuge of activism & dissent. Indonesia's secular military government reflected in the secret police chief being a devout Catholic with a deep aversion to Islamism. https://t.co/6KGyDNKrOr